Peter Anderson Festival

This weekend was the acclaimed Peter Anderson festival. Peter and his brother, Walter, were regionally well-known artists from Ocean Springs. The festival brings in hundreds of artists for the weekend. There's a art show and contest and LOTS of food and people. Over 100,000 came through our tiny town in two days! It was fun to walk the streets looking at all the creativity. We didn't find anything that needed a home with us, but maybe next year. Here are some fun shots.

The Explorers!

Booths and people EVERYWHERE!

Live music all day long.

Halloween of Yesteryear

I'm working on Christmas presents and one of them is a calendar for some family members. I'm pretty certain the ones in question never read my blog, so I'm safe in posting this one pic. Mom was very creative in using available resources for various costumes. I was the witch multiple years in a row and mom made that one. The other costumes were borrowed from friends or came from our own wardrobes. I don't recall ever shopping for costumes or anything like that. Isn't Kelly the cutest little puppy???

Incidently, the calendar is a free template from Creative Memories. You can download it for free and just drag 'n' drop your pictures into the spaces. They give you three different template options for each month. You can insert text into the image area and then also onto the calendar. All possible family birthdays will be included in this gift! You can download the template from my website. Once you're finished you can upload it to the Creative Memories Digital website and order yours. Shamelessly I will tell you that calendars will be 20% for orders of 2 or more from Nov. 1 through the 15th. Just in case you need some quick Christmas ideas!

Halloween Nostalgia

This week has me reminiscing of last year when we took the boys pumpkin picking, carved and painted them at my house, then we went trick-or-treating with them. It was a special time. We miss the boys more than I can express. We haven't seen them in three months and we have roughly a month to go before we'll see them again. Pray for patience for both us, and them. Here are some pictures of the pumpkin patch and trick-or-treating.